Xanthus Staff
Frances Cleveland, President and Principal Consultant
Ms. Cleveland has managed and consulted on Smart Grid information and automation projects in the electric power industry for over 30 years. Her expertise has focused primarily on interoperability standards, cybersecurity issues, and automation for power system operations, including Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI), distributed energy resources (DER), plug-in electric vehicles (PEV), distribution automation (DA), demand response (DR), substation automation, SCADA systems, and energy market operations.
Recent work includes participation in the NIST Cyber Security Working Group CSWG to develop cybersecurity requirements for the power industry, including high level requirements, security architecture, vulnerabilities, key management, and privacy. As a contractor to EPRI, she developed the cybersecurity requirements for AMI systems, Home Area Networks (HAN), and distribution operations, which were used extensively by the CSWG in developing the NISTIR 7628 Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security. She also assisted in the development of the NIST Smart Grid Roadmap, including electric transportation and distribution grid management, and specified many demand response functions for Energy Storage and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) systems, including the extension of IEC 61850 object models for these functions.
Through EnerNex, she is the Technical Champion for the NIST Priority Action Plan PAP 7 on Energy Storage-DER, and participates actively in PAPs 8 on Distribution Grid Management and PAP 11 on PEVs. She is also the Chair of the SGIP CSWG Standards Subgroup.
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In the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), she is convenor of IEC TC57 WG15 for IEC 62351 security standards for power system operations, editor for IEC TC57 WG17 for IEC 61850-7-420 information standards for DER, PEV, and DA, and member of WGs 3, 14, 16, and 19.
In the IEEE, she is chair of the IEEE PES PSCC Security Subcommittee, past chair of the PSCC, and chair to the task force for assessing all IEEE Smart Grid standards for the IEEE Intelligent Grid Coordinating Council (IGCC).